
Hotty from History #16 - Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley
I’ve been trying to do weekly bios on obscure historical figures lately. Here’s this week:
Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley (1897-1918)
Being the lovechild of Tsar Alexander II and Olga Paley, his mistress; young Vladimir was bound to have an interesting life. Growing up in Paris, and spending the majority of his time at a military school reserved for aristocracy back in St. Petersburg, which during so he grew into a painfully attractive young man {this you cannot deny}. Fighting {and not dying, as millions of Russkis did} in WWI, Vladimir returned to Russia, only to find that the Reds had been rallied. Best welcome home present ever for the illegitimate child of a Tsar; you think? Well, after Nicholas II had stepped down from the Tsardom and Aleksandr Kerensky had taken his place, promising to push forward in the war and bring Russia to victory, Vladimir made the mistake of writing a poem about Kerensky, for which he was arrested by the Bolsheviks. I doubt they enjoyed it. Then, unfortunately in 1918 he was killed and tossed down a mineshaft at the age of 22 with a number of his relatives. A disappointing end which was the fate of many of individuals somehow affiliated with the Tsar and/or the White Army. Rest in peace, Prince Vladimir Paley. You fine.
couldn’t have said it better ourselves! thanks to lostsplendor for this delightful guest entry.
See, history class would be so much more fun if everything was explained like this.
“So Teddy Roosevelt decided to fuck shit up by building the Panama Canal.”
idek 8D
^ Agreed. History needs to be taught the way we actually study it -__-.
“And the Colombians were like, fuck no we’re not giving you Panama. And Roosevelt LOLed and whipped out his Big Stick and took it anyway, cuz thats just how he rolled.”
BONUS POINTS FOR INNUENDO OHOHO.
^ Tina, you are my hero forever.
Don’t we do this every year before the big History Common Assessment?…like, come up with the story-version-accented-with-innuendo-and-cussing of every chapter we need to know.
…If we don’t, we need to start doing this XD
dribble dribble Hnnngh